Dennis Lehane grew up in the Dorchester section of Boston’s inner-city.  Since his first novel, A Drink Before the War, won the Shamus Award, he’s published seven more novels with William Morrow & Co. that have been translated into more than 30 languages and become international bestsellers: Darkness, Take My Hand; Sacred; Gone Baby Gone; Prayers for Rain; Mystic River; Shutter Island, and The Given Day. Morrow also published Coronado, a collection of five stories and a play, and both Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone have been made into award-winning films.  In October 2009, Columbia Pictures will release the motion picture adaptation of Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorcese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, and Mark Ruffalo.

Lehane has an MFA from Florida International University and is the writer-in-residence at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he runs the Writers in Paradise writers’ conference.  Before becoming a full-time writer, Mr. Lehane worked as a counselor with mentally handicapped and abused children, waited tables, parked cars, drove limos, worked in bookstores, and loaded tractor-trailers. His one regret is that no one ever gave him a chance to tend bar.  He and his wife divide their time between St. Petersburg and Boston.

THE GIVEN DAY: A Novel (William Morrow, 2008)
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CORONADO: Stories (William Morrow, 2006)
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SHUTTER ISLAND: A Novel (William Morrow, 2003; Avon paperback, 2004).  
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MYSTIC RIVER: A Novel (William Morrow, 2001; Avon paperback, 2002).
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PRAYERS FOR RAIN: A Novel (William Morrow, 1999; Avon paperback, 2000).
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GONE BABY GONE: A Novel (William Morrow, 1998; Avon paperback, 1999).
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SACRED: A Novel (William Morrow, 1997; Avon paperback,1998).
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DARKNESS, TAKE MY HAND: A Novel (William Morrow, 1996; Avon paperback, 1997).
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A DRINK BEFORE THE WAR: A Novel (Harcourt Brace, 1994; Avon paperback, 1996).
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